Diet and cancer risk

This project examines the association between lifestyle and environmental factors and cancer mortality in Switzerland. It mainly uses survey data with and without mortality follow-up from various population samples from Switzerland.

• Continuous outcome logistic regression for analyzing body mass index distributions.
  Lohse T, Rohrmann S, Faeh D, Hothorn T. F1000Res. 2017 Nov 1;6:1933. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.12934.1. eCollection 2017.
   
• Type A personality and mortality: Competitiveness but not speed is associated with increased risk.
  Lohse T, Rohrmann S, Richard A, Bopp M, Faeh D; Swiss National Cohort Study Group. Atherosclerosis. 2017 Jul;262:19-24. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2017.04.016
   
• Adherence to the cancer prevention recommendations of the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research and mortality: a census-linked cohort.
  Lohse T, Faeh D, Bopp M, Rohrmann S; Swiss National Cohort Study Group. Am J Clin Nutr. 2016 Sep;104(3):678-85. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.116.135020.
   
• Heavy Smoking Is More Strongly Associated with General Unhealthy Lifestyle than Obesity and Underweight.
  Lohse T, Rohrmann S, Bopp M, Faeh D. PLoS One. 2016 Feb 24;11(2):e0148563. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148563. eCollection 2016.